Dashholders check in but they never check out.
I checked out.
It is certainly true that receiving masternode payments, voting on budget proposals through you masternode and working towards your next masternode
can all become very addictive. Dashholders seem to make more longterm goals for themselves.
Don't forget about the miners who secure your essential POW network, having to give (45%!!) of their hard-earned to people who have no running costs.
Without Masternodes they would either secure a shitcoin without value or they wouldn't even bother to mine it.
Masternode network is what gives Dash value. Darksend and Instantx is there thanks to it.
In this I agree, but the rewards are grossly excessive for the services provided.
Not so sure. It was said that Dash needs something like 4000 MN to scale up.
Yes but not for years before there are any (significant number of) users. Hundreds or maybe 1000 should be enough for testing and build out.
It costs $5/month to run a node supposedly (number from this thread). $10/month would probably be enough incentive for people to bring up a very large number of nodes, especially since people can own many nodes, which reduces the costs associated with running them. I mean look at a coin like Monero (not shilling here, and I doubt there are any potential customers here anyway, just happens to be one I know). It has 100-300 nodes with no incentive at all. How many nodes would you get with $10/month incentive?